When sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with folks I often hear, “I’ll get right with God when I am older, or when I am on my death bed.” My heart cringes to hear such words of disdain towards God. Our young and bold minds and hearts think that we are immortal and will live forever. However, we know all too well that life is a vapor and both the young and the old die – often unexpectedly. Scripture tells us that today is the day of salvation. It is a call to not put off turning to Christ in repentance and faith.
It would be rare to hear an unbeliever never catch themselves telling Satan when tempted, “not today, let me put this sin off until later in life”, yet they tell God to stand aside all the time. It’s a true indication of the heart of man. A heart that is evil and stony. It is why the gospel is such great news. For it is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe. (Rom. 1:16)
Thomas Watson, one of the great Puritans, penned in his excellent book, “The Beatitudes” the following on the folly of so called death bed repentance. I agree with his evaluation…
To put off our solemn turning to God till old age, or sickness, is high imprudence, because these late acts of devotion are for the most part dissembled and spurious. Though true morning for sin be never too late, yet late mourning is seldom true. That repentance is seldom true-hearted which is gray-headed. It is disputable whether these autumn tears are not shed more out of fear of hell than love to God. The mariner in a storm throws his goods overboard, not but that he loves them, but he us afraid they will sink the ship. When men fall to weeping-work late and would cast their sins overboard, it is for the most part only for fear lest they should sink the ship and drown in hell. It is a great question whether the sick-bed penitent does not mourn because he can keep his sins no longer. All which considered may make men take heed of running their souls upon such a desperate hazard as to put all their work for heaven upon the last hour.”
If you have been living this way, thinking that you will either have the opportunity to repent and trust in Christ in your old age or that you are the captain of your life and know what tomorrow holds I urge you to take great heed of the seriousness of the condition of your soul. God’s wrath rightly abides on all outside of Jesus Christ. Cry out to God and ask Him to grant you true faith and repentance – for today is the day of salvation.
Now that Thanksgiving is over it’s time for Christmas music! This is one of my favorite Christmas songs performed by what has to be the most talented musicians on the planet called Celtic Woman. May this performance get you in the Christmas spirit…
To make finding more popular posts easier (as well as some items I have not posted here) I’ve created an articles section on the blog. Let me know what you think! I’ll be adding to it over time. Enjoy!
As a false convert for over 20 years of my life I know the dangers first hand of the “sinner’s prayer” and the hellish teachings of “carnal Christianity” and the unBiblical phrases like “ask Jesus into your heart”. I too was told by many that since I repeated a prayer and was “in the club” that no matter how I lived my life I was still heaven bound. Salvation is not only from the penalty of sin but from the power of sin! Salvation is the product of being born again – being a new creation with a new heart and new desires and a God-given hatred for sin.
Friends of this blog, if you don’t watch a single video I have posted I urge you to watch this video. This man’s testimony is spot on. This will cause many to shudder and my prayer is that if you have trusted in a prayer, walking an isle and profess to be a Christian yet live a life of sin and love the world you need to examine yourself and cast yourself on the Savior Jesus Christ. If you are a pastor, teacher of evangelist who has watered down the gospel and holds to the hellish teaching of carnal Christianity I urge you to examine the Scriptures and repent.
As many of you know I am a musician and love to write and arrange music – especially hymns. One of my favorite hymns is “Crown Him With Many Crowns”. During this Christmas remember that the little babe in the manger is crowned with many crowns as the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
So, I put together a short orchestral arrangement of “Crown Him With Many Crowns” and offering it here for everyone to download and use as they want. I hope it blesses you as you reflect on the words of this magnificent hymn this Christmas!
I haven’t been posting as often on my blog as I normally do for a few reasons. First, I started back classes at CIU and I’m taking Greek so needless to say my head has been in the books <grin>. (So please pray for me!!!)
Second, I’ve been battling a nasty cold/flu bug for over a week now and just haven’t had the energy to post.
I’ve also learned through this that I do tend to spend more time than I should on the internet – even browsing the Christian blogs and catching up on the latest heresy I’ve found takes away valuable time I could be spending in the Word and in prayer with my Lord.
To all us bloggers out there – the blogosphere is an excellent ministry but don’t allow it to overshadow the sweet time in prayer and meditation of the Word.
I love to write in my Bible. It’s so hilited and written in that certain pages look like just about every color of the rainbow. (My wife prefers a yellow hiliter and so we call her Bible the “sunshine Bible”. Taken outdoors it will blind you when opened. <grin>)
I’ve spent quite some time finding the best pens and hiliters to use to mark and take notes in my Scriptures. The best hiliters are definitely the Bic Brite Liner Z4’s. They don’t bleed through and don’t fade like many others.
But oh what I ran across yesterday at Staples. I happened to go down the pen isle and what did my wandering eyes see… a new Sharpie Pen. In fact, it’s called the “Sharpie Pen” and it touted not to bleed through almost all papers. So I grabbed a package and couldn’t wait to try it out in my Bible.
I am impressed! This is one great pen and even on some of my more worn pages it truly does not bleed through the pages – even the thin pages of most Bibles. So if you’re one who loves to write in your Bible get one of the new Sharpie Pens!
Seems like doctrine lately gets attacked more and more by the emergent church. I think this cartoon posted on the way of the Master radio web site says it all!
As many of you know I am a musician and love to write and arrange music – especially hymns. One of my favorite hymns is “Crown Him With Many Crowns”. During this Christmas remember that the little babe in the manger is crowned with many crowns as the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
Seems like doctrine lately gets attacked more and more by the emergent church. I think this cartoon posted on the way of the Master radio web site says it all!
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